Venus on the half-shell and others / Philip José Farmer ; edited by Christopher Paul Carey ; [foreword by Tom Wode Bellman].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farmer, Philip José.

Contributor:

Carey, Christopher Paul.

Language:

English

Genre:

Science fiction.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

323 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Burton, MI : Subterranean Press, 2008.

Summary:

Venus on the Half-Shell and Others collects for the first time the best of the best from Philip Jos? Farmer's scintillating "fictional-author period." In the mid-1970s a fever-pitched furor was created when an actual novel purported to be by Kilgore Trout -- the sadsack science fiction writer who appears as a character in the works of Kurt Vonnegut -- materialized on the bookracks, complete with a mysterious back cover photo of the author looking like a bearded vagabond sage. Debate raged as to who had truly written Venus on the Half-Shell. Was it Vonnegut himself, or perhaps Theodore Sturgeon, rumored to have been the inspiration for Trout? Or did Kilgore Trout really exist? Just as one respected newspaper published an article "proving" that Vonnegut had written the book, the Hugo Award-winning science fiction author Philip Jose Farmer announced he was the true author. The controversial Kilgore Trout episode was neither the first nor the last time Farmer would impishly slip out of h

Contents:

Why and how I became Kilgore Trout

Venus on the half-shell

Obscure life and hard times of Kilgore Trout

Jungle rot kid on the nod

Problem of the sore bridge

among others

Volcano

Osiris on crutches

Phantom of the sewers

Hole in Hell

Last rise of Nick Adams

Adventure of the peerless peer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781596061422

1596061421

OCLC:

192074536